I have a very dear friend, a great painter, called me up very upset, the work wasn't going well… He asked me to come to his studio — which I did — I looked around at the work, dozens of sketches, drawings, large pictures, and I was very close to his work, intensely involved with his work, and he asked me, 'What's wrong?' And I said, 'Simple – it's a loss of nerve.

Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987 (ed. 2006)